Just last week, we noted that while those long-delayed bike lanes downtown are great and all, it’ll be a long time before Dallas drivers give cyclists their space. Texas motorists tend to feel entitled to the road, which they are loath to share with some spindly, non-motorized conveyance. We learn…
The police report for Sunday afternoon’s robbery of the Zone d’ Erotica on Forest Lane doesn’t say much. Someone walked into the adult novelty retailer with a knife, demanded cash, and left. The robber got the money, about $250, but he (or she — the report doesn’t specify) also made…
You already knew that Mike Miles, DISD’s new superintendent, isn’t one to mince words. That was, after all, part of the thinking in hiring him: that a straight-talking, pull-no-punches leader could transform DISD from an improving but still struggling urban district into one of the country’s finest. So far, Miles’…
Steven Lawayne Nelson was found guilty Monday morning in the slaying of Clint Dobson, a 28-year-old pastor who was discovered in Arlington’s NorthPointe Baptist with a plastic bag clinging to his face. Investigators say Nelson wielded a Daisy air pistol during the March 2011 robbery that ended in Dobson’s murder…
This summer, Andrew Moss, a former DART police officer, launched a petition urging the transit agency to offer domestic partner benefits. Moss had worked for DART until health problems forced him to step down in 2008. Though his husband continued to work there as a police officer, their marriage isn’t…
Last week, we told you about Cody Wilson and his group Defense Distributed, which would very much like to create a printable gun using a 3D printer. Not so much because Wilson plans on stockpiling weapons in his dorm room, but because, as he told us, he’s trying to make…
It’s been almost a year since the city first began mulling changes to its solicitation and anti-litter ordinance, which is a roundabout way of saying the City Council wants the Morning News to quit it with the damned Briefings, those free papers distributed to unwitting homeowners across the city. Those…
Over the summer, Methodist Dallas Medical Center admitted it had made a teensy weensy mistake and accidentally slipped the wrong kidney into one of its organ recipients. Such an error could have easily killed the patient had her body rejected the organ, but it didn’t. The kidney turned out to…
Jerry Jones must have felt the superlatives slipping away from Cowboys Stadium, that monument to football, consumerism, and, not least, Jerry Jones. What other explanation could there be for opening the first ever lingerie store inside a sports stadium? Three years after it opened with a dome that, at 275…
The Indigo on Forest is, per its website, a wonderful community located in “prestigious North Dallas” that still manages to offer apartments at the low, low price of $440 per month. It would be almost idyllic if it weren’t for the contingent of MS-13, a.k.a. Mara Salvatrucha, a.k.a. the brutal…
Meet Ricky Carr. He’s 53, from Fort Worth, and a regular visitor to both the Dallas and Tarrant County jails. One’s first impression upon looking at his picture is probably not “Hey, he looks just like a police officer!” or “Finally! Someone who can tell me if this pile of…
EPA isn’t ready to give up the fight over a rule aimed at curbing air pollution wafting across state lines. The agency filed a petition with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Friday morning, asking for a re-hearing before the full court. This comes more than a…
There was a time when you couldn’t turn on daytime TV without being bombarded with dire, low-budget ads advising anyone who’d stepped near a pharmacy between 1999 and 2004 to talk to contact an attorney immediately about Vioxx. The anti-inflammatory drug was linked to tens of thousands of cases of…
The death of Deanna Cook, who police believe was murdered by her ex-husband as 911 operators listened, was a rare public reminder that instances of domestic violence can turn fatal, with alarming frequency. So far this year, 19 PEOPLE have been murdered in acts of domestic violence, few of which…
Rock-bottom natural gas prices have forced the wonks over at the Brattle Group to revise their national prediction for the number of coal-fired power plants likely to retire in the coming years steeply upward. And when we say steeply, we mean by some 25 gigawatts, or roughly enough electricity to…
For nearly two decades, Reginald Osborne worked for the Dallas County Community College District, first as a teacher at Cedar Valley and then, for the past 17 years, as an administrator and athletic director at Mountain View. He did until last month, at least, when DCCCD fired Osborne for allegedly…
On Saturday, a tad more than 1,400 people are expected to turn out to clean up their local green space for Dallas’ It’s My Park Day. The city launched the annual event last year as a way to give neighbors a sense of ownership of their parks and, one assumes,…
If someone rolled into Unfair Park HQ and pointed an assault rifle at me while they stole my $800 and seven packs of Newports, I’d probably piss my pants and then go become a monk or a farmer, or maybe a farmer-monk. The owner of McGriff’s Beer & Wine are…
Three weeks after the FBI raided the Dallas apartment of Barrett Brown, an affiliate of the hacker group Anonymous, the other shoe has finally dropped. The U.S. Attorney’s Office filed an indictment today, charging Brown with Internet threats, conspiracy to make publicly available restricted personal information of a federal employee…
One of the things Obama took pains to highlight during last night’s debate was just how aggressively his administration has gone after Medicare fraudsters. Remember Jacques Roy, the Rockwall physician accused of masterminding a scheme to bilk the government of $375 million? Probably not, since the drubbing Obama received in…
“On the inside, I’m a wreck,” Don Nedler confided. He’s a baldish, blue-eyed guy in his mid-50s, and from the outside he looked pretty calm. “I didn’t sleep last night,” he added. “I woke up at 5 a.m. My dogs were looking at me like I was crazy.” Although he’s…
You might not expect the granddaughter of H.L. Hunt, the oil magnate who inspired Larry Hagman’s character on Dallas, to be particularly fond of public radio. But as it turns out, Lyda Hill is very fond indeed of her local NPR affiliate, KERA. The station announced today that Hill’s foundation…
